Perfect Storm - Part 2 - 2 of 4

Baldwin B12s were the only PRSL diesel yard switchers on their roster and had long useful lives in southern NJ.

The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company sent their aging steam locomotives to NJ to die, an intermediate stop on the way to the scrap yard. Here a PRR K4 4-6-2 Pacific takes on coal. In just a few years the water towers would be torn down, and the coaling towers would become dilapidated monuments to the bygone age of steam. 

WY843 Delivering sand and concrete to Buzby Brothers Cement

PRR H30 Covered Hoppers

 

WY33 Empty Sand Hog heading south

This is the drops/pickups switch list for WY27 the Millville Local. We originally ran a standard four-cycle Waybill card system but as the train sizes grew, the operating crew became less happy with handling a large stack of cards so I transferred the card cycles onto a spreadsheet, copied them to a Microsoft Access database and using SQL generated a switch list for each train. Now we can handle up to eight waybill cycles for cars being shipped off line and eventually returning on-line.

 WY27 heads south through Westville with time-warped PRSL GP-38s in the lead.